North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Election 2000 - Network performance status quo
Sean Donelan wrote: > > Large scale measurements of the Internet showed no measurable difference > in overall packet loss or reachability during the 2000 US national > elections. Aggregate traffic measurements at NAPs and some providers' > MRTG graphs didn't show much difference from last Tuesday's. > > Unscientific measurements of specific web sites (i.e. news and political > sites) did show increased latency and timeouts, which tends to indicate > the bottleneck was at the web site. CNN and MSNBC went to a stripped down > front page; which helped their performance. ABCnews and CBSnews appeared > to keep their full frontpage, and were very sluggish. Yahoo News, with > the most stripped down, almost all text news page, was speedy all night > long. > > Although some people throwup their hands, and say you can't control the > Internet; it does seem like many of the issues are at the point under > the control of the individual organization. > > Smaller websites such as political candidate sites did have problems > loading, but they are probably going away tomorrow anyway. Hello Sean; Apparently the load is even higher now : http://news.excite.com/news/ap/001108/19/-eln-on-the-net Any signs of it ? Regards Marshall Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc. 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 201 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : [email protected] http://www.on-the-i.com
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